Millennium turn-down for Libeskind's Boilerhouse

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The 67 million pounds sterling Boilerhouse project by Daniel Libeskind for the Victoria & Albert Museum, designed to mark the Millennium, has been rejected for funding by the Millennium Commission. The Commission felt that the project is not distinctive enough. The Victoria & Albert is now planning to apply for funding to the Arts Council. Schemes which will be considered by the Commission include the Wales Millennium Centre, the New Technopolis Millennium library and the Museum of British History.

Management, Museum finance

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A substantial gallery with a domestic scale

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A new art gallery is to be built in Walsall, England, on the basis of a design from Caruso St John. This has features including large first-floor galleries, which will house temporary exhibitions, smaller rooms on the second and third floors, workspace for children and a studio for a resident artist. The design also allows for a restaurant and an open public terrace.

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How the Swiss swung Bankside

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Herzog & de Meuron of Switzerland, an architectural practice, has won a competition for the conversion of Bankside Power Station on the Thames into the Tate Gallery of Moder Art. The Swiss approach to converting the building was a combination of new and 'found' space and the creation of classical galleries, working in sympathy with the building.

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